Literal thinkers
What is about literal thinking and autism? Ramam’s friends had come over in the October holidays. He was very excited. And his expression manifested itself in few joyous shouts and screams from him. I then asked him to show his friends a tray full of glasses filled with juice. I got back to doing my work, when one of the mother’s remarked. “He is doing what Viji asked him to do”. He was literally holding the tray high and standing in their midst. My intention was to ask him to serve the guest. So much for literal thinking and my failure to communicate to him. If one actually looks at the way they process information, shifting their attention to the speaker, trying to process the words, and decode the meaning , adding to the burden are all the prepositions, conjunctions we use while speaking. Communication difficulties makes it harder for them to clarify, and again as language us